"Now you'll cool off about that supper party, and turn down Gorla and the rest of us." It was certainly true that the supper already seemed a more difficult proposition in Cicely's eyes than it had a moment or two ago.
"'You'll not forget my only daughter, E'en though Saphia has crossed the sea,'" quoted Tony, with mocking laughter in his voice and eyes.
Cicely went down to greet her husband.

She felt that she was probably very glad that he was home once more; she was angry with herself for not feeling greater certainty on the point.

Even the well-beloved, however, can select the wrong moment for return.

If Cicely Yeovil's heart was like a singing-bird, it was of a kind that has frequent lapses into silence..